Zocdoc: Senior Staff Software Engineer, Interop — New York, NY

About Zocdoc

Zocdoc develops technology that helps patients find and book healthcare appointments. Its employer introduction describes both a healthcare marketplace and infrastructure supporting access to care through other search and provider channels. The stated focus is the path from seeking care to obtaining an appointment. Its work includes making booking accessible beyond its own marketplace, connecting patient-facing discovery with the systems used by healthcare providers and other organisations to make available appointments easier to reach.

The position and its setting

Zocdoc lists Senior Staff Software Engineer, Interop in New York, NY, under reference 8072568. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Technology
• Employer listing date: 24 July 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in the Interoperability group, you will unlock the full potential of our integrations with 170+ EHRs
• These integrations enable Zocdoc to pull real-time availability, write back bookings to trigger practice workflows, and exchange appointment data – insurance cards, medical history, and intake forms – between patients and providers
• Your leadership will expand their impact across our entire product ecosystem
• Our platform is at an inflection point
• New product lines require us to move from eventually-consistent syncs to tighter, fail-fast integrations – a major rearchitecture that you will lead
• EHR systems also hold valuable data we've only begun to tap: insurance credentialing, provider onboarding signals, patient LTV and more
• Shape both the technical strategy and contribute to the product vision for how we leverage this data
• Development: clear abstractions that let other engineering teams leverage our integration capabilities without understanding the inner workings of individual EHRs
• You'll bring order to immense complexity and translate it into simple, powerful interfaces
• Partner with senior product, engineering, and business leaders to define strategic priorities and influence architectural decisions across multiple teams
• Mentor engineers, guide teams through ambiguity, and establish best practices that improve reliability and scalability across our integration stack
• Taking ultimate technical ownership of Zocdoc’s interoperability technical strategy
• Building: solutions that scale to serve Zocdoc’s largest, most complex customers
• Driving the rearchitecture of our sync framework to support real-time, fail-fast integration patterns
• Design: abstractions that hide EHR-specific complexity and expose clean, consistent capabilities to product teams
• Analysis: and decomposing complex product challenges to drive sound design decisions

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Inspired by the opportunity to positively impact the healthcare experience for millions of customers and providers
• Passionate about building highly scalable platforms with the latest technologies, and excited about developing new and innovative products
• A visionary product-driven leader with a relentless focus on customer needs, and excited to partner closely with cross functional teams leading strategic projects from early ideation through successful launch and iteration
• Energized by complexity – you see 170+ different integration partners not as chaos but as a puzzle to solve through smart abstractions and clear interfaces
• A fervent champion of engineering fundamentals that enjoys driving adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability across organizations and teams
• A leader who mentors and grows teams, cultivates innovation and drives cross-collaboration across multiple teams
• Hands-on and lead by example, shipping code alongside your team, not just from the whiteboard
• A believer that diverse and inclusive teams and cultures are non-negotiable
• An entrepreneur with ownership who can thrive in an ambiguous and fast changing environment
• Successfully architected and shipped high-impact, complex, solutions and frameworks, with experience working across multiple areas of the technology stack and complex system integrations
• Experience building platforms or frameworks that abstract complexity for other engineering teams – you know how to design APIs and interfaces that are a joy to use
• Demonstrated history of and well rounded system design and architectural leadership skills
• A product mindset – you think beyond the technical implementation to how capabilities translate into customer value
• Improved developer productivity, efficiency and velocity by setting up and evangelizing best practices for coding, testing, deployment, observability and developer tooling
• Successfully mentored other engineers in the past and have encouraged your peers to use engineering best practices
• A growth mindset and inspire excellence, acting as a multiplier for your team and the broader engineering organization
• 10+ years of significant expertise in backend development
• Understanding: OO Fundamentals
• Zocdoc is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices
• Salary ranges are determined through alignment with market data

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Experience successfully working with a distributed workforce preferred
• Experience within AWS environments and a high emphasis on testing is a plus

Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• NYC Base Salary Range: $201,400 — $304,000 USD
• Advertised location: New York, NY

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Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Zocdoc

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Relevant skills

• C#
• AWS
• APIs
• React
• AI
• insurance
• investment
• stakeholder management
• commercial negotiations